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Ryan North
Ryan North (born 1980)

engineer, programmer, cartoonist, caricaturist

  • University of Toronto, Carleton University

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The unbeatable Squirrel Girl
Marvel Rising
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 3
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 4
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 2
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 10
Year of Marvels
Extreme Venomverse
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
How to Take over the World
Adventure Time
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1: Squirrel Power
Slaughterhouse-Five
the best of Dinosaur Comics
Adventure Time Annual 2015
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
Adventure Time
How to Invent Everything
Gender and the Superhero Narrative
To Be or Not To Be
This Is How You Die
Spitball 8
How to Invent Everything
Hora de Aventuras #3
Adventure Time Vol. 3 Mathematical Edition
Midas Flesh Vol. 2
Hora de aventuras, 7
Adventure Time Vol. 2 Mathematical Edition
Adventure Time, Vol. 4
Midas
The Mystery of the Meanest Teacher
Hora de aventuras 4
Adventure Time
Hora de aventuras, 8
Hora de aventuras. 1
Power Pack
Adventure Time Vol. 6 Mathematical Edition
Fantastic Four the Ultimate Guide New Edition
Adventure Time #14
Adventure Time : Candy Capers
Adventure Time #8
Adventure Time #23
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Omnibus
Call Your Squirrelfriends
Darkhold
Adventure Time #32
Adventure Time #30
Fantastic Four
Adventure Time #33
Star Trek
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl One
Fantastic Four by Ryan North Vol. 3
Adventure Time #30
Midas Flesh Vol. 2
Adventure Time #26
Adventure Time Vol. 6
Adventure Time #2
Adventure Time #7
Adventure Time #3
Adventure Time #16
Adventure Time #27
Romeo y/o Julieta
Adventure Time #25
Romeo y/o Julieta
Adventure Time 3.
Adventure Time #15
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 12
Adventure Time - Mathematical Edition
Jughead 2
Adventure Time Bind-Up
Computational measures of the acceptability of light verb constructions
Fantastic Four by Ryan North Vol. 2
Adventure Time, Volume 2 (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Adventure Time #21
Adventure Time #31
Adventure Time Vol. 7 Mathematical Edition
Midas Flesh #8
Adventure Time Compendium Vol. 1
Bill and Ted's Most Triumphant Return #1 (of 6)
Secret Invasion
Adventure Time #12
Hora de Aventuras 6
Adventure Time #19
Adventure Time Vol. 5 Mathematical Edition
Spider-Verse
Jughead 3
Howard the Duck by Zdarsky and Quinones Omnibus
Adventure Time #29
Adventure Time #9
Slaughterhouse-Five
Adventure Time #34
Adventure Time #10
OGN. LA CHICA ARDILLA
Adventure Time #75
Romeo and/or Juliet
Adventure Time Vol. 7
Adventure Time Vol. 4 Mathematical Edition
Fantastic Four by Ryan North Vol. 1
Adventure Time Volume 1 (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Adventure Time (Boom Studios))
Adventure Time #22
Adventure Time #17
Stories from the Overworld #2
Adventure Time #33
Fantastic Four by Dan Slott Vol. 2
Adventure Time #20
Adventure Time #1
Adventure Time #35
Adventure Time #28
Adventure Time, Volume 4 (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Adventure Time #11
Fantastic Four by Ryan North Vol. 4
Adventure Time Vol. 8 Mathematical Edition
Adventure Time Vol. 17
Danger and Other Unknown Risks
Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute (1899-1960)

flight engineer, engineer, racing automobile driver, aircraft pilot

  • University of Oxford, Dragon School

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In the wet
On The Beach
No Highway
Town Like Alice and on the Beach
Pied Piper
The breaking wave
The rainbow and the rose
An Old Captivity
Ruined city
What Happened to the Corbetts
Great World War II Stories
So Disdained
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 1 - 1976
A town like Alice ; (and), Pied piper ; (and), The far country ; (and), The chequer board ; (and), No highway
Vinland the good
Lonely Road
Stephen Morris
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
Marazan
A town like Alice
Slide Rule
Most Secret
Round the Bend
The Mysterious Aviator
Landfall, a channel story
Supreme Storyteller
Pastoral
A Nevil Shute omnibus
Far Country
The Wine-Press - a tale of war
The Wheezers And Dodgers The Inside Story Of Clandestine Weapon Development In World War Ii
Trustee from the Toolroom
Le dernier rivage
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two
Three of a kind
Under a Sheltering Sky
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two
GENERAL (A) HISTORY OF MUSIC;
世界就是這樣結束的
Chequer Board - Canada
Beyond Black Stump-Can
The Rainbow and the Rose
Lonely Road
Rainbow and Rose
Mysterious Aviator
Pastoral
Rainbow & Rose - Canada
Lonely Road
PIED PIPER.
Rainbow and the Rose
The Chequer Board
Requiem for a Wren. Heron Complete Works of Nevil Shute
Lonely Road. Heron Complete Works of Nevil Shute
Round the Bend
The Rainbow and the Rose
Peguin Readers 4
Le testament ; roman
Lonely Road
So Disdained
Ordeal (a.k.a. What Happened to the Corbetts)
Three of a Kind
Pastoral
Pied Piper
Beyond the Black Stump
Lonely Road
Nevil Shute set (6)...chequer board 1965,far country 1952, most secret 1965, on beach 1960,ordeal 1965,stephen morris 1965
Beyond the Black Stump
Lonely Road
Kumsalda
THE LEGACY.
The Legacy
Lonely Road
Le testament
Three Novels
Lonely Road
Lonely Road
The rainbow and the rose
So Disdained
Round The Bend
What happened to the Corbetts
Legacy [a Town Like Alice]
Lonely Road (Great Pan Books. No. G554.)
BEYOND THE BLACCK STUMP
Patoral Copyright
Lonely Road
What Happened to the Corbetts
The Far Country
Lonely Road - Canada
Lonely Road
The rainbow and the rose [by] Nevil Shute
A Town Like Alice / The Far Country / On the Beach
Pied Piper
Omnibus
Pied Pier
Lonely Road
Lonely Road
Ordeal
The chequer board
What Happened to the Corbetts and Pastoral
What Happened to the Corbetts
Pastoral
Rainbow and the Rose
Landfall
Lonely Road
Three of a Kind
What Happened to the Corbetts
Maraazan - Canada
Around the Bend
Ṭayase ha-etmol
The Seafarers
ha-Zaḳen ha-mufla
In the wet
Stades de légende
Finale als voorspel
Lonely road
העזבון
Lonely road
Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker (born 1946)

mathematician, computer scientist

  • Swarthmore College, Rutgers University

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Year's Best SF 14
Freeware
Software (Ware Tetralogy #1)
Frek and the elixir
The hacker and the ants
Surfing the Gnarl (Outspoken Authors #7)
Mathenauts
Mad Professor
Realware
Gnarl!
Postsingular
Wastelands 2
Mathematicians in Love
White light
Jim and the Flims
The Sex Sphere
Spaceland
Semiotext(e) SF
Master of space and time
All the visions ; Space baltic
Saucer wisdom
The secret of life
The ware tetralogy
The hollow earth
Spacetime Donuts
Hylozoic
Transreal!
Million Mile Road Trip
The Big Aha
57th Franz Kafka
Totem Poles
Hollow Earth & Return to The Hollow Earth
Return to the Hollow Earth
Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel
Juicy Ghosts
Infinity and the mind
The Fourth Dimension
Seek!
Geometry, relativity, and the fourth dimension
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
Mind Tools
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul
Artificial life lab
Wetware
Mondo 2000
As Above, So Below
Nested scrolls
Software engineering and computer games
Transreal Cyberpunk
Rudy Rucker's cellular automata laboratory
Loco: A Tor.Com Original
Live robots
Superlative Light
The UFO Show
Good Night, Moon: A Tor.Com Original
Notes for Return to the Hollow Earth
Where the Lost Things Are
Notes for Juicy Ghosts
Complete Stories (Volume 1)
Complete Stories (Volume 2)
Wikiworld and Other Stories
Notes for The Big Aha
Transreal Trilogy: Secret of Life, White Light, Saucer Wisdom
Heath Math Level 1 Student Text
Billy's Picture Book
Heath Math Level 3 Student Txt
Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory: A Tor.Com Original
Moldies & meatbops: Three *ware novels
Heath Math Level K Student Text
Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard (born 1982)

software engineer, engineer

  • Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle

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Meeting Infinity
Mission
Cosmic Powers
Seven of Infinities
The Immersion Book of SF
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
The Best of Uncanny
Epic
Servant of the Underworld
Harbinger of the storm
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 (Volume 8)
Master of the House of Darts
Harbinger of the storm
Master of the House of Darts
The House of Sundering Flames
The Death of All Things
The House of Binding Thorns
Harbinger of the Storm
Scattered Among Strange Worlds
Silk & Steel
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls
Fireheart Tiger
The Long List Anthology Volume 3: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series)
Nebula Awards Showcase 54
Knee-Deep in Grit
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3
The House of Shattered Wings
Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders
The house of binding thorns
Obsidian and Blood
The Red Scholar's Wake
Obsidian and Blood (Obsidian & Blood)
Entropic Angel
A Fantasy Medley 3
On a Red Station, Drifting
The Long List Anthology Volume 2: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series)
The House of Binding Thorns (A Dominion of the Fallen Novel Book 2)
Scheherazade's Facade
Clarkesworld: Year Six
Infinity Wars (The Infinity Project)
In the Vanishers’ Palace
Clarkesworld Issue 145
Clarkesworld: Year Seven
Das Haus der gebrochenen Schwingen
The Tea Master and the Detective
The Year's Top Short SF Novels 6
Lullaby for a Lost World: A Tor.Com Original
Barcelona Tales
Clarkesworld Issue 129
Clarkesworld Issue 64
Clarkesworld Issue 69
Clarkesworld Issue 153
Asian Monsters (Fox Spirit Books of Monsters) (Volume 3)
Grimdark Magazine Issue #12
Clarkesworld Issue 78
Clarkesworld Issue 124
Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight
Hans Dominik
Hans Dominik (1872-1945)

engineer, technician

  • Ernestinum Gotha

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Die Macht der Drei
Vom Atlantik zum Tschadsee: Kriegs- und Forschungsfahrten in Kamerun
Das Buch der Physik für die Jugend
Im Wunderland der Technik
Flug in den Weltraum
Vistra, das weisse Gold Deutschlands
Geballte kraft
Himmelskraft
Unsichtbare Kräfte
Atomgewicht 500
Atlantis
Kautschuk
Der Wettflug der Nationen
Land aus Feuer und Wasser
John Workmann, der Zeitungsboy
Das stählerne Geheimnis
Moderne Piraten
Die Spur des Dschingis-Khan
Land aus Feuer und Wasser
Kautschuk
Lebensstrahlen
Der Befehl aus dem Dunkel
Triumphe der technik
König Laurins Mantel
Das Erbe der Uraniden
Kamerun
Treibstoff SR
Die Spur des Dschingis-kahn
Klaus im glück
Der Brand der Cheopspyramide
John Workmann
Vom Schraubstock zum Schreibtisch
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

architect, inventor, diarist, scientist, poet, artist, visual artist, engineer, philosopher, designer, mathematician

  • Harvard University, Bates College

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Nine chains to the moon
Intuition
Approaching the benign environment
Fuller's earth
Comprehensive thinking
Approaching the benign environment [by] R. Buckminster Fuller, Eric A. Walker [and] James R. Killian, Jr. Pref. by Taylor Littleton
Pound, synergy, and the great design
50 years of the design science revolution and the World Game
Science fact/fiction
Critical path
Operating manual for spaceship earth
Synergetics
Earth, Inc.
Your private sky
Inventions
Humans in universe
Education automation
R. Buckminster Fuller on education
Buckminster Fuller
Synergetics 2
American Earth
The Complete Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller
Guinea Pig B
Grunch of giants
Ideas and integrities
Tetrascroll
And it came to pass--not to stay
Untitled poem on the history of industrialization
The Buckminster Fuller reader
I seem to be a verb
Naga
Utopia Or Oblivion
Utopia or oblivion: the prospects for humanity
Fuller R. Buckminster - Now and Tomorrow
Synergetics dictionary
Cosmography
Buckminster Fuller
World design science decade, 1965-1975
What I am trying to do
Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller-A Comprehensive Collection of His Designs and Drawings
No more seconhand God, and other writings
The world game
The dymaxion world of Buckminster Fuller
Ideas and integrities
Buckminster Fuller to children of earth
The artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller
World design science decade 1965-1975
Utopia or oblivian
The design initiative
Integrity Day
Designing Environments
4D time lock
Fuller projection Dymaxion air-ocean world
The Buckminster Fuller reader
The Critical Path (2 tapes)
A Twentieth Century Renaissance
Éducation, automation
Three structures by Buckminster Fuller in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Only Integrity Is Going to Count
Approaching the Benign Environment (The Franklin lectures in the sciences and humanities)
Fifty years of the design science revolution and the world game
Synergetics / The Parajo Dunes Tapes
Buckminster Fuller at Camberwell
And it came to pass--not to stay
Windfall Poems, 1977
Education for Human Development
Universal architecture
Grunch Giants
Fifty Year Experiment
Better homes for lower incomes
World game report
4 D
Is There Enough to Go Around
Buckminster Fuller
In the Tuileries Garden
Jacques Bergier
Jacques Bergier (1912-1978)

journalist, chemical engineer, ufologist, translator, spy, chemist, literary critic, French resistance fighter, opinion journalist

  • Science Faculty of Paris

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Les frontieres du possible
Rire avec les savants
Encyclopédie des sciences et des techniques
Extraterrestrial visitations from prehistoric times to the present
L' espionnage scientifique
Extraterrestrial intervention: the evidence
Visa pour une autre terre
La grande conspiration russo-américaine
Los extraterrestres en la historia
Secret doors of the earth
Extraterrestrial visitations from prehistoric times to the present
Retorno de Los Brujos
The morning of the magicians
Secret armies
O plasma, quarto estado da matéria
La Guerre secrète du pétrole
Les empires de la chimie moderne
Extraterrestrial Visitations From Prehistoric Times to the Present
Les Chefs-d'oeuvre du rire
Je ne suis pas une légende
Admirations
Morning of the Magicians
La troisième guerre mondiale est commencée
Entretiens avec Jacques Bergier, le dernier des magiciens
Agents secrets contre armes secrètes
L'énergie H.
Visa pour demain
Le Matin Des Magiciens (French Edition)
Tình báo khoa học
L'Espionnage industriel
Le livre de l'inexplicable
Le Livre des anciens astronautes
L'espionnage stratégique
Le Livre du mystère
Vous êtes paranormal
The Morning of the Magicians
L'espionnage politique
Alexander Gromov
Alexander Gromov (born 1959)

electrical engineer

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